Open-source News

How One Open-Source App Saves Me Hours of Work Every Week  How-To Geek

I tried using a FreeBSD distro that's meant to be run off a flash drive  XDA

Google’s PSP Protocol Brings Quantum-Resistant Encryption to Linux 6.18  WebProNews

You Can Roll Dice in the Linux Terminal, Here's How  How-To Geek

Is Oreon Linux a True Red Hat Enterprise Alternative?  The New Stack

5 Things Nobody Tells You About Switching to Linux from Windows  How-To Geek

Linux Ready To Upstream Support For Google's PSP Encryption For TCP Connections  Phoronix

Not to be confused with AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP), but Google's PSP Security Protocol (PSP) for encryption in-transit for TCP network connections is now ready for the mainline kernel. This initial PSP encryption support for network connections is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel...

Code was open-sourced this week and posted to the Linux kernel mailing list as a "request for comments" (RFC) for a multi-kernel architecture. This proposal could allow for multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel could run on dedicated CPU Cores while sharing underlying hardware resources. This could also allow for some complex use-cases such as real-time (RT) kernels running on select CPU cores...

Multi-Kernel Architecture Proposed For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language. Binder is a critical part of Android for inter-process communication (IPC) and now with Linux 6.18 it looks like the Rust rewrite will be upstreamed...

A patch queued into the PCI subsystem's "next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window will uniformally expose the PCI device serial number of devices via sysfs for easy programmatic parsing...

Linux 6.18 To Make It Easier Parsing PCI Device Serial Numbers  Phoronix

I tried using DietPi Linux with Xfce on an old laptop and it exceeded my expectations  XDA

6 operating system luxuries Windows users have never known about Linux  XDA

Developers behind the Git distributed revision control system are debating whether to make Rust programming language support mandatory...

FLX1S is a new Linux phone that’s… mostly a downgrade from the FLX1  Liliputing

Optimizing Linux System Calls: Cutting Costs with io_uring and eBPF  WebProNews

Don't Forget to Change These 5 BIOS Settings When Dual-Booting Windows and Linux  How-To Geek

Why You Shouldn’t Use a Full Path in Your Linux Aliases  How-To Geek